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12/12

Rashna Darius Nicholson

Contributor

Rashna Darius Nicholson is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong and has held fellowships at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center, and Hughes Hall, Cambridge. Her research and teaching specializations include nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century theatre history, historiography, and practice; postcolonial and world literature; and cultural development. Rashna currently serves on the editorial boards of Theatre Research International, Pamiętnik Teatralny, The Journal of Global Theatre History, Palgrave Macmillan’s Transnational Theatre Histories series and Boyden and Brewell’s Nineteenth-Century British Theatrical Culture series.

11/12

Roweena Yip

Contributor

Roweena Yip is a Lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her PhD in Theatre Studies from NUS, having completed her Masters and undergraduate degrees at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research has been published in Asian Theatre Journal, The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction and The Asian Family in Literature and Film. She is also Assistant Director of the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive
(A|S|I|A).

10/12

Jonathan Bollen

Contributor
Jonathan Bollen, PhD FAHA, is Professor in the Graduate Institute of Performing Arts at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. He is the author of Touring Variety in the Asia Pacific Region, 1946–1975 (Palgrave, 2020), and co-author of Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces (Cambridge UP 2022), A Global Doll’s House: Ibsen and Distant Visions (Palgrave, 2016), and Men at Play: Masculinities in Australian Theatre since the 1950s (Rodopi, 2008). He has experience in the digital humanities, contributing to the development of AusStage since 2005.
09/12

Caroline Chia

Contributor
Caroline Chia is a lecturer at the Master of Translation and Interpretation, Nanyang Technological University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Melbourne and previously held teaching and research positions at the University of Melbourne and Nanyang Technological University.
08/12

Miguel Escobar Varela

Contributor
07/12

Mohammad Nuramin

Contributor
06/12

Adrijaa Chakraborty

Research Assistant
Adrijaa Chakraborty is a PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies at the National University of Singapore. As a performance practitioner and researcher, she explores the intersections of dance, ritual, and gender in South Asia. Her practice-based research engages with Shakta and Tantric traditions to examine how embodied movement becomes a mode of devotion, resistance, and knowledge-making. Her current work investigates women’s ritual labor and affective ecologies of devotion in contemporary South Asian performance.
05/12

Koh Yee Cheng

Research Assistant
Yee Cheng Koh is a PhD candidate in the Joint Degree Programme between National University of Singapore and King’s College London. Her research interests lie in the making of modern Asian theatre in Southeast Asia, with a specific focus on English, Malay, and Chinese theatre in post-war Singapore and Malaysia. She is currently focusing on the making of Malayan theatre in Singapore, where she explores the politics of (de)colonisation through the lenses of nationalism, race, and modernity.
04/12

Ross Laird

Archivist

Ross Laird is an Australian sound archivist, record collector and historian who has had a long interest in the history of the international record industry. He previously worked with the Australian National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra and worked in Hong Kong for Cable TV. He began spending time in Singapore in 2004 and was a Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow at the National Library of Singapore in 2010. His published works include Sound Beginnings: The Early Record Industry in Australia and The Sixties: Australian Rock and Pop Recordings, 1964–1969.

03/12

Kyueun Kim

Research Fellow
Kyueun KIM is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Theatre and Performance at the National University of Singapore. She received her PhD from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, with a certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. Her research explores how technology, spirituality, and cultural memory are reimagined through VR and immersive media, with a focus on contemporary art and performance in Global Asia.
01/12

Alvin Eng Hui Lim

Principal Investigator

Alvin Eng Hui LIM is a performance, religion and theatre researcher. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the intersections of theatre and religion, popular religious practices, spirit mediums and rituals, with emphasis on digital media. He is also Deputy Director and Technology and Online Editor (Mandarin) of the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A|S|I|A, http://a-s-i-a-web.org/). His monograph, Digital Spirits in Religion and Media: Possession and Performance, was published by Routledge in 2018.

02/12

Hedren Sum

Research Fellow
Hedren Wai Yuan Sum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at the National University of Singapore, specialising in digital methodologies, knowledge organisation systems, ontology-based frameworks, and immersive technologies to enhance cultural heritage interpretation. Formerly as principal librarian for digital scholarship, his work integrates cultural heritage and information science, focusing on how XR and AI transform historical content analysis. Hedren holds a PhD in Art, Design, and Media (Art History) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and is committed to advancing Digital Humanities through research and collaboration.